"Revised 1996 by Christine Mason. The basis for this map was taken from the 1938 map donated to the Lebanon County Historical Society by Herman W. Louser."
Base map reprinted courtesy of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Transportation.
Original map base 1969 by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Transportation.
Addresses delivered at the second stated meeting of the Lebanon County Historical Society, held in the court house, Lebanon, Pa., Friday, April 15, 1898.
Lebanon County Historical Society publications ; v. 1, no. 3
Notes
Photocopy.
Contents
Chapters: Great influx of Germans and Swiss -- Early residents -- The plan of the town -- The name of the town -- The old market house -- The Franklin House -- The water works -- Stiegle's Castle or Tower -- The Reformed church -- Early members of the Reformed church -- The Lutheran Church -- The Lutheran School House -- The founder of the town -- The old cemetery -- Copy of a paper found in the Reformed Church records ( in German ).
This booklet was issued on the occasion of the dedication of a memorial plaque at his birthplace near Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylvana, on September 26, 1964. Sponsors: Chester County Historical Society; Penn State Alumni Club of Chester county; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; The Pennsylvania State University.
Chapters: Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography --- The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors --- The Politics of Fair Play --- The Farmers' Frontier --- Fair Play Society --- Leadership and the Problems of the Frontier --- Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier --- Frontier Ethnography and the Turner Thesis
Summary
The book discusses a self-governing community established in an area that was between today's Williamsport and Lock Haven, settled primarily by Scotch-Irish immigrants who had felt unwelcome in the Province of Pennsylvania.